TWIN UFOs SIGHTED ALL
AROUND FLORIDA

UFO sightings peaked in Florida last week with
reports coming in from all over the state.

On Monday, March 2, 1998, at 12:50 p.m., Don
Rash was driving his daughter to her job at the
Circle K convenience store in Pensacola Beach
(population 4,000), a seaside town on the Florida
panhandle. As he drove home to Gulf Breeze, six
miles (10 kilometers) to the north, "he suddenly
looked up into the clouds and blue sky and saw a
huge, silver, saucer-shaped object...Don described
the object as being the size of a quarter at arm's
length."

The saucer "turned up on its side" for a few
seconds, then "it disappeared 'as fast as lightning.'
He estimated the object to be at 10 o'clock (i.e.
about 75 degrees azimuth--J.T.) and to be over
the famous Shoreline Park in Gulf Breeze." (Many
thanks to Vicki Lyons for this report.)

On Friday, March 6, 1998, a Cub Scout patrol
and their two adult advisers were camped out near
Titusville (population 39,394) and Cape Canaveral.
While the boys slept, the two adults sat up to
watch the fire and talk.

At 11 p.m., one of the men reported, "I saw
something in the sky and assumed it was a plane
with just one headlight on. As it got closer, I realized
that it was going at an incredible rate of speed, and
that the object didn't 'go away' as the angle of my view
changed...It kept going in a northerly track..."

"Bob said, 'Did you see that?'"

"'Go get your binoculars. This is the strangest
thing I've ever seen.'"

While Bob went to fetch the binoculars, the witness
continued to observe the UFO. "I noticed that it seemed
to be changing direction," he reported, "It got many miles
north of us and did make a U-turn and come back in a
southerly direction."

Taking the binoculars, he "looked at it, and it rotated
a little--enough for me to see five lights...The lights that I
saw were sort of in a V position...It stayed totally
illuminated the entire time...It made no sound and we
were able to hear for miles and miles."

The flap went into high gear the following day,
Saturday, March 7, when the twin UFOs were seen
in several cities on both Florida coasts.

At 6:45 p.m., Craig W. and his wife were driving on
Periwinkle Way on Sanibel, an offshore island in the
Gulf of Mexico when they "caught a glimpse of two
fuzzy, silver-white objects, rounded or perhaps
spherical, and each trailing a fan-shaped whitish"
contrail. "They looked a lot like the recent (Hale-Bopp)
comet would have if it were brighter."

Further north, in Tampa (population 280,015), a large
city 273 miles (437 kilometers) northwest of Miami,
Joseph Murgia, his wife and 12 other employees at
the City of Tampa cable TV access station spotted
"two white lights."

"At first they stayed together," Murgia reported,
"as if they were mounted on the wing of a plane...
Then, to our mild surprise, they broke off and separated.
About 15 seconds later, they both 'faded' out within
seconds of each other. At arm's length, they were about
the size of a tennis ball. They made no sound..."

Also at 6:45 p.m., in Okeechobee (population 4,943),
on Highway 441 about 125 miles (200 kilometers)
northwest of Miami, Danny Oakes, a pilot with the
Confederate Air Force stunt team, "witnessed two
brightly lighted objects approaching his location (on
the north shore of Lake Okeechobee--J.T.) from the
southwest at an extremely high velocity. The objects
appeared...to slow suddenly, after which one of the
objects 'shot off' and then returned to its position
beside the other object. Then both objects appeared
to go straight up into the atmosphere and disappeared."

In Fort Myers (population 45,206), approximately
129 miles (206 kilometers) south of Tampa, Dr. James
Acker, a cardiologist from Knoxville, Tennessee who's
vacationing in Florida, "was driving north on Fiddlesticks
Boulevard...approximately one mile from the local airport
when the (Acker) party witnessed two objects moving
across the sky in formation for an estimated 15 to 20
seconds (i.e. an estimated speed of between 720 and
960 miles per hour--J.T.). Both of the objects, he
reported, appeared to be bright white lights, and each
of them appeared to have a 'halo' around the center
core of the lights." Dr. Acker also reported that the
objects had a "tail" resembling "a comet in space."

Also at 6:45 p.m., in Vero Beach (population 17,350),
a city on the Atlantic Ocean coast about 152 miles
(243 kilometers) north of Miami, a witness reported
"two bright lights moving towards us, one lower than
the other. One turned and disappeared, leaving an
illuminated doughnut ring. Then the other light did the
exact same thing."

At 6:50 p.m., two witnesses in Lehigh Acres, Fla.
(population 13,611), on Highway 884 about 15 miles
(25 kilometers) east of Fort Myers, saw "two glowing
fireball objects with a huge afterglow spread out
behind them" while they were "traveling east on
23rd Street in Lehigh Acres and then north on Beth
Stacy Boulevard." The UFOs were "observed traveling
southeast...The object on the left was higher than the
one on the right. About two minutes after the objects
were spotted, the one on the left faded out for about two
seconds but the afterglow remained."

Also at 6:50 p.m., a couple in Island Park in
Sarasota (population 50,961), a city on the Gulf coast
45 miles (72 kilometers) south of Tampa, reported an
"object coming from the southeast at twilight, sky very
clear and not yet dark. Object was white with a small
white core came moving towards us...It moved steadily
toward the northwest and seemed to dissolve."

At 6:55 p.m., witnesses in Punta Gorda, Fla.
(population 10,747), located 23 miles (37 kilometers)
east of Fort Myers, reported "two brightly-glowing,
disk-shaped objects at about 100 degrees magnetic
and 40 to 50 degrees above the horizon. Relationship
to each other was line-abreast formation. Movement
was extremely slow and turned to the east."

At 7 p.m., six adults sitting on a lanai in Port
Charlotte, Fla. (population 41,535) located 28 miles
(45 kilometers) north of Fort Myers, "observed two
bright lights about five finger-breadths apart moving
erratically" through the sky.

The National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle
also received calls from witnesses in Bonita Springs,
Sarasota Springs and St. Petersburg.

On Sunday, March 8, WINK-TV in Fort Myers
aired an amateur video of the two UFOs on its
6 p.m. news broadcast. (See Florida Today for
March 11, 1998, "Viewers Treated to Eerie Sky Show."
Many thanks to Peter B. Davenport of the National
UFO Reporting Center, George A. Filer of MUFON,
Vicki Lyons, Joseph Murgia, Courtland Lewis and
others for these reports.)

UFO FLIGHT OVER BERMUDA
STARTLES RESIDENTS

On Saturday, March 7, 1998, the same evening
the two UFOs appeared in southwestern Florida, a
similar glowing UFO was seen in Bermuda.

Bermuda is an island in the Atlantic Ocean
approximately 650 miles (1,040 kilometers) northeast
of Titusville, Florida.

The majority of the sightings were reported on
the south side of the island, in Warwick, Smiths,
Devonshire and Paget. One witness described the
object as "a red light traveling east."

Dozens of witnesses telephoned the police and
reported "mysterious lights hovering over the island"
between 7:45 and 8 p.m., local time.

"Eyewitness Jean Plath was driving down Middle
Road when she saw the lights."

"'It was huge, big as a stadium arena light,' Mrs.
Plath said, 'At first it looked like a helicopter with a
searchlight I couldn't say how high up it was, but it
wasn't that high. It was really white and had a shaft
(of light) coming down.'"

"' Then it just evaporated. It turned into two hazy
lights and took off into the air. Then something even
stranger happened. I looked across the street, and
there was this sort of pink haze everywhere, like a
mist."

On March 9, the Bermuda sighting was
attributed to a missile test, the launch of two D-25
missiles from the Trident submarine USS West
Virginia. (See the Royal Gazette of Bermuda
for March 9, 1998, "Inhabitants Jarred Over UFO
Sighting," and March 10, 1998, "UFO Lights Caused
by US Missile Launch." Many thanks to Jay in
Hamilton for these news stories.)

ANOTHER HORSE MUTILATED
NEAR ALAMOSA, COLORADO

On Thursday, March 5, 1998, Skip, a six-year-old
white gelding belonging to rancher Kim Miller of
Sanford, Colorado, was found dead and mutilated in
a pasture near the Rio Grande River, located 10
miles (16 kilometers) south of Alamosa.

The horse, one of a herd of 16, was found lying
on its left side and "missing the flesh around the
left mandible, the genitalia and the right ear."

Miller and his 19-year-old son made the gruesome
discovery early that morning. The son reported that
"fifty eagles were flying around like swallows."

On Friday, March 6, 1998, at 10 a.m., author/
investigator Christopher O'Brien met the Millers in
Alamosa and drove out to the crime scene for an
on-site investigation.

O'Brien described the scene as a field of
"chimisia, sage and alkali flats." As they arrived,
fifteen agitated horses crowded the truck, momentarily
preventing them from reaching the crime scene.

"I've been running them out in this field for three
years," Miller said, "and they've never acted like this
before...they're trying to tell us something."

O'Brien carefully examined Skip's carcass. He
reported, "The ear was removed in a three-inch
(6 centimeter) diameter circle. The horse also had
a 'baseball-sized hole in the brisket.' The carcass
exhibited appearent evidence of being killed by
proficient professionals. The softball-sized brisket
hole was especially impressive. A 12-inch (24-
centimeter) plug of heart/muscle had been completely
removed without a single spilled drop of blood."

"The horse's winter coat, about two-and-a-half
inches (5 centimeters) in length, had been cut to
one-eighth of an inch (0.25 centimeters) around the
upper muzzle portion of the mandible excision."

Strangest of all was the absence of tracks,
including Skip's hoofprints, at the crime scene.
O'Brien noted that the ground consists of fluffy
white alkali, which displays tracks very well.

"You could throw a pen out there and see it,"
said Miller, an expert hunting guide.

O'Brien collected three tissue and blood
samples from the remains, which will be evaluated
by the Rocky Ford state pathology laboratory,
a veterinary pathology lab and a hematologist
in Denver. (Many thanks to Chris O'Brien, author
of THE MYSTERIOUS VALLEY, for this report.)

MORE UFOs SIGHTED IN
WESTERN COLORADO

UFOs were sighted in western Colorado last
week, east of Grand Junction.

On Monday, March 2, 1998, at about 2 a.m.,
William R., who was "awake due to some back
pain" heard his dogs whining at his home in
Cedaredge, Colo. (population 1,380), a town on
Highway 65 about 15 miles (25 kilometers) east
of Delta.

"He went out on the back porch to see what was
bothering them. To his surprise, his dogs were
looking into the sky."

"Above Cedaredge were seven objects that
appeared to be 1,000 feet (300 meters) up in the air.
stationary, soundless and quite large, with bright
multi-colored lights on them, 'like Christmas lights.'

He described the UFOs as "built like an
octagon" and "all had white colored lights but one,
which had amber-colored lights. One object was
located over the school, another over the golf course,
another over a county road and the rest in various
locations" around Cedaredge. He then woke up his
elderly mother and they watched the UFOs until
about 3 a.m. (Many thanks to ufologist Davina
Ryszka for this news story.)

On Friday, March 6, 1998, at 10 p.m., Chip
Sierra was at his home on the Ruedi Reservoir
near Basalt, Colo. (population 1,128) when he spied
a UFO in the night sky.

Basalt is just off Highway 82 about 25 miles
(40 kilometers) southeast of Glenwood Springs.

Chip reported that the UFO "first appeared in the
southern sky and then moved to the southeast" and
was "20 degrees above the horizon." He added,
"It was perhaps two or three times the diameter and
brightness of Jupiter. Or just smaller than the size
of a pencil eraser held at arm's length."

He described the UFO as "a fireball" of a bright
white color that was "pretty well defined against
the dark night sky. I only saw it for a minute before
it dropped behind the mountain." (Email Interview)

GREEN FIREBALL CAUSES STIR
IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

On Sunday, March 8, 1998, at about 6 p.m., a bright
green fireball appeared over Placerville, California
(population 8,355), a small city on Highway 50 about
44 miles (70 kilometers) east of Sacramento.

Minutes later, the fireball hovered in the sky over
Sacramento, the state capital. Motorists stopped their
cars on San Juan Road and Del Paso Road in the west
end of the city to observe the phenomenon.

"Traffic on Interstate (Highway) 80 between Davis and
Dixon slowed to a halt as motorists stopped to watch
the fireball. Many drivers swamped the California Highway
Patrol with phone calls, but the control tower at
Sacramento (Metropolitan) airport insisted no planes
were missing."

Sacramento (population 369,365) is 91 miles
(145 kilometers) east of San Francisco.

In Monterey (population 31,954), located 125 miles
(200 kilometers) south of San Francisco, witnesses
reported the green fireball hovering over the bay.

"The (U.S.) Coast Guard contacted Griffith
Observatory in Los Angeles, which confirmed that it
was a big meteor shower."

Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Alan Tubbs said,
"It was just getting dark and everybody was facing
this direction just as the sun was coming down. It
was the king of all meteor showers." (See the
San Jose Mercury News for March 9, 1998, "Meteor
Shower Stalls Traffic Near Sacramento." Many
thanks to Arnold Veness for forwarding this news
story.)

CAVALLARI SNAPS FOUR NEW
UFO PHOTOS IN BROOKLYN

On Sunday, March 1, 1998, at 11:50 a.m., Alex
Cavallari "was waiting for some people to arrive" at his
home in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, a
borough of New York City, and decided to go out on
the front porch.

"While I was waiting, I was looking at the clouds
in the sky and noticed a cigar-shaped UFO. The
object was first seen near the perimeter of a cloud
formation."

Getting his Minolta camera from the house, Alex
"went back to looking at the cloud formation...and I
noticed the object exiting the the cloud...There was
a small clear (patch of) sky near where the object was
exiting, and it (the UFO) appeared to be heading toward
another cloud formation."

While the object was in clear blue sky, Alex took
four pictures with his camera.

"As I was taking a picture, I saw a very bright object
of white light in the vicinity. It appeared a little like a
fireworks rocket exploding. There was no sound and the
flash was very bright. The flash looked like a point of
white light exploding into very small white lights."

"I then saw what appeared to be spheres/orbs," he
added, "White colored dots all over the sky. The
spheres/orbs disappeared in about five seconds."

"I was looking around and noticed the cigar-shaped
UFO in the north, exiting a cloud formation. It was
entering clear sky, so I took a few more pictures." He
estimated the cigar-shaped UFO to be at an altitude
of "10,000 feet at 60 to 70 degrees above the horizon."

(Many thanks to Alex Cavallari for this report. Alex is
also a ham radio enthusiast and can be reached at
KB2NYV.)

NEW JERSEY MAN SAYS
TRIANGULAR UFOs ARE
ACTIVE ALONG THE SHORE

Reports continue to pour in about UFO activity
along New Jersey's Atlantic Ocean shore following
the recent sightings in the Toms River area.

Michael A., who lives in Eatontown, N.J.
(population 13,800), located 20 miles (32 kilometers)
north of Toms River, says his community has been
visited by UFOs "for the past ten months."

According to Mike, he, his girlfriend and Paul D.,
another resident, have seen "many strange craft in
both Monmouth and Ocean counties. We have seen
craft hovering over the CECOM Building, located in
Tinton Falls, N.J. (population 12,361) thirty miles
north of Toms River, also over top of the Electronic
Weapons and Night Vision Development building,
and over top of the Pulse power station."

Mike also claims to "have seen in my area
triangular craft flying low overhead from the east
towards the west, observed over the Earle Naval
Weapons base in Colts Neck, N.J. They have
been seen moving east towards the ocean along
the Navasink and Shrewsbury Rivers."

On two occasions, Mike and his friends "saw
a round band of flourescent blue light on the underbelly
of one of the hovering craft directly over the Gardern
State Parkway (New Jersey Route 9) and it was
clearly a triangular craft." (Email Interview)

UTAH MAILMEN SPOT GIANT
UFO OVER GREAT SALT LAKE

On February 26, 1998, at 1:05 a.m., postal workers
Timothy N. and Samuel W. were driving to work on
Interstate Highway 89 about 20 miles (32 kilometers)
north of Salt Lake City when they spied a UFO.

The men saw the UFO as they were driving through
Syracuse, Utah (population 4,658). The UFO was
"hovering over Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake."

"We looked out over the lake and saw a very unusual
and peculiar sight," Tim reported. "We couldn't tell what
it was, so we drove toward the lake to take a closer look.
There were dozens of dead seagulls on the side of the
road. As we got closer to the lights hovering down
the road, the lights in our Chevrolet truck started to
flicker. This lasted only a brief moment."

"As we got closer, we could tell that this was not an
airplane. It had a spherical shape and was one to two
hundred yards (90 to 180 meters) in diameter. As we
got closer, we could see lights flashing bright, ranging
from green to yellow to blue."

The men saw the UFO "zigzagging and figure eights."
When it stopped moving, "this is when we got our best
look. It had a metallic look to it and had lights that
rotated."

Next the object "slowly moved behind a mountain."
Then "the UFO, giving off a faint hum, slowly appeared
from behind the mountain, then just like a flash of
lightning it flew off to the west and that was the last
we saw of it." (See Filer's Files #10 for 1998. Many
thanks to George A. Filer of MUFON for this report.)

WOMAN HAS TWO SIGHTINGS IN CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

On Wednesday, February 25, 1998, at about
9:15 p.m., Debbie Hickman was driving west on
Interstate Highway 40 in Oklahoma when she
spied "a green fireball" in the night sky.

"I left Oklahoma City and was driving west on
I-40 back to Elk City," she reported. "I had passed
the towns of Yukon and El Reno and was at mile
marker 126 when I spotted a green fireball in the sky
west of my position. It appeared to be about the size
of a golf ball at arm's length and traveled straight-line.
I spotted the fireball as it came into the view of my
windshield. It was in view for three or four seconds as
it traveled straight down and then impacted the ground...
I saw green sparks fly up from the impact."

The next evening, Thursday, February 26, 1998,
Ms. Hickman saw "a huge white light just south of
Clinton Lake. The light was seen near the Clinton/
Sherman Air Force Base but it was at treetop level.
While (she was) observing the light, it 'instantly' came
forward to the edge of the tree line...and the light could
be seen through the trees. It then moved up a few
feet in altitude and moved over the interstate directly
over her truck. It then flew along I-40 for a few
seconds."

By the time Ms. Hickman reached mile marker 47,
near Canute, Okla. (population 538), the mysterious
light had vanished. She added, "The light was so
bright it illuminated the (truck's) cab." (Many thanks
to Cliff Capers and Jim Hickman of Skywatch
International for this report.)

TWO UFOs SEEN IN PORTUGAL

On Friday, March 6, 1998, the same day a bright
white UFO was seen near Cape Canaveral, Florida,
two silvery disc-shaped objects were seen across
the Atlantic Ocean, along the coast of Portugal.

Three people walking the beach at Praia da
Cabana do Pescador in Portugal's Costa da
Caparica spotted a silvery glimmer in the blue
afternoon sky. One witness said, "The objects were
small, disc-shaped, showing a luminous glow and
showing a bright top when seen to turn, and (looked)
a little like sterling silver." (Muito obrigado a Pedro
Cunha por eso caso.)

LUMINOUS DISC SIGHTED IN FREMANTLE, AUSTRALIA

On Sunday, March 1, 1998, at 8:30 a.m., Maya S.
'was sitting in the backyard, having a cigarette and
looking up into the vastness of the hot, clear, night
sky" and "saw what seemed like a meteorite streak
across the whole sky from north to south."

Maya's home is in Fremantle, Western Australia
(W.A.), about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Perth,
the state capital.

The object flew "without losing its velocity or its
brightness," Maya reported. "As it neared the southern
horizon, my eye caught the attention of another distant
meteorite more directly above me. As it was going, it
did a 300-degree circle and shot off after" the other
object. "What struck me the most was its 'irregular'
motion...I've never witnessed anything unnatural like
this in the sky before." (Email Interview)

from the UFO Files...1981: UFO SIGHTED NEAR LUFKIN, TEXAS

"Mrs. Carroll Hartzog Thursday night reported an
encounter with a UFO on her recent trip to Atlanta."

"She said she and her daughter, Paula Materanek,
were leaving Lufkin en route for Atlanta last Friday
night about 9:30 p.m. when they saw 'a very large
brightly lighted object approaching.'"

"'As it passed over us, I leaned against the glass
and had a very good look at it,' Mrs. Hartzog said,
' It was below the tops of the pines and passed over
the car, and continued to follow the highway, passing
from our view in making the curve.'"

"'It had bright red lights, alternating with white
light, coming out of the openings. The bottom surface
visible toward us was round and a larger object than
the length of the car. There were no wings or extensions,
just the round object, with sort of a loud humming noise,
unlike anything we had ever seen.'" (See the Victoria,
Texas Advocate for March 13, 1981, page 1."

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